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K3fka

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From: Florida

Registered: 2011-12-04

Posts: 10

[SOLVED] Mplayer crashes system

I'm having trouble playing videos with mplayer and all guis for it. Trying to do so causes a pretty severe crash; it takes me back to the login screen! I did a test in terminal and wrote the output to a file so I can share it with you. Here is said output. Hopefully someone here can help me!

Edit: I just tested it in Parole, which, AFAIK, isn't just a wrapper for mplayer. I got a crash then as well. I can post a log if desired.

Last edited by K3fka (2012-01-01 20:58:53)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Mplayer crashes system

It sounds to me like Xorg is crashing.  You might look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log  -- after the crash, before you restart Xorg.

Absent of any useful log info, you might try disabling compositing and see if that helps.

Also, you did not mention what video chipset you have...

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: [SOLVED] Mplayer crashes system

Have you tried various file-types? Oggs, flacs, mp3s, et al.?

I just tested it in Parole, which, AFAIK, isn't just a wrapper for mplayer. I got a crash then as well. I can post a log if desired.

You should change the title then.

When did this start happening? Was it after a system update by any chance? In that case you might need to try synching to a different server.

nathrakh

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Registered: 2011-12-22

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Mplayer crashes system

I installed everything from the scratch yesterday and tried the AMD's propriety drivers if they'd work. Lolnope. Everytime I tried to watch anything with (s)mplayer X/drivers crashed and threw me to login manager/console. Works fine with the xf86-video-ati drivers now. And yes, I did everything according to guides.

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: [SOLVED] Mplayer crashes system

Probably a problem with video acceleration.  See if the following is any help.  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … celeration

Run vainfo to see if video acceleration is working on your system.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: [SOLVED] Mplayer crashes system

I've seen this at the Gentoo forums lately, the problem is the proprietary AMD driver. Use gl output instead of xv as a workaround.

K3fka

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From: Florida

Registered: 2011-12-04

Posts: 10

Re: [SOLVED] Mplayer crashes system

Okay, switching from the catalyst driver to the xf86-video-ati driver worked.

doorknob60

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Registered: 2008-09-29

Posts: 403

Re: [SOLVED] Mplayer crashes system

Yeah, it's a problem with xv output+catalyst. If you want to go back to Catalyst later, use gl instead of xv, or better, set up vaapi for video accelleration and that works too.